transformation

This executive’s guide to business transformation is a short and succinct guide to ensuring your organisation thrives in the digital age. Business transformation defined Business transformation is the process of reinventing your organisation because what made it successful in the past is no longer working. Or at least is not guaranteed to work in […]

Most business leaders know that they need to transform their organisation to ensure success in the digital age. And most business leaders are adopting a ‘rabbit in headlights’ posture because they simply don’t know what to do next. To ensure you get off to a flying start, be aware of these seven flawed assumptions. If you […]

In the previous five posts, I have focused on the issues associated with organisational transformation to the digital age, as well as on the key elements that will determine the extent to which your organisation will thrive in the digital age. In this post, I will focus on the steps you need to take on […]

In the previous Biz 4.0 post, we explored the steps to take to start your organisation’s digital journey. In this post we are going to cover the digital onboarding process for your people. Please note that the term, digital onboarding, is more associated with moving customers to an online service. I believe the term is […]

There is a lot of talk about the need to take a digital detox, a kind of short vacation back to the physical world as it were. Living a large fraction of our lives online has yet to have an epigenetic impact on humanity, so deep down we hanker for the return to a more […]

So what is digital transformation? It might help to picture the following: Two caterpillars bump into each other whilst scaling the underside of a cabbage. They go back a while, so they both comment on how each other has changed, before getting back to business. A month or so later they meet again. This time […]

Actually, don’t change a thing in your existing business. Cultural transformation endeavours have the power to damage your 1.0 business model, yet fail to deliver the ‘universal soldiers’ you need. The weight of the downsides more than offset the benefits of the upside. Identify a set of hypotheses around new opportunities your organisation could pursue, […]

A recent article in McKinsey Quarterly argues that there is a growing need to create a two speed enterprise. Version one being the industrial model and version two being a digital economy variant. It’s a tough one for the leadership because: This is new territory and thus somewhat scary. There is a leadership overhead in […]